Not just a PhD in wanking, but a peer-reviewed paper on masturbating to images of young boys. Published in "Qualitative Methods". t.co/L3MnSkYQFN
twitter.com/ProfAliceS/status/1556584749447143425?t=v_5NNIZDXKNzFbMBZxWsfQ&s=19
How did this get past Manchester University's ethics process @OfficialUoM ? Masturbating to images of children and writing it up for public consumption does not seem ethical to me. This is hugely disturbing.
Actually I'm speechless.
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Just when I thought Academia couldn't sink any lower.
Imnobody4 · 08/08/2022 16:40
YetAnotherSpartacus · 09/08/2022 12:15
I've read on a thread somewhere that it has been rejected and is being resubmitted.
Not unusual ...
I didn't realise that the article was different from the PhD research but it appears it is (?) according to the video I watched.
KittenKong · 09/08/2022 14:11
Oh what the ‘winning’ project was…
We had to create artwork for some event or other. I persuaded everyone to close their eyes and imagine it for themselves. I waffled on about ‘see in your minds eye the most amazing canvas - imagine the colours and the brushstrokes… the composition is completely in balance… feel the emotion of the subject… bla bla bla’.
dammit I could have been the next Damien Hurst with that…
Yes, I’d not done any work on the project.
titchy · 09/08/2022 17:15
There was a documentary about Goldsmiths years ago. One of the students there crapped on a table and said it was their project. Another copied a known artist and submitted the emails from that artist complaining as their final year project.
KittenKong · 09/08/2022 14:11
Oh what the ‘winning’ project was…
We had to create artwork for some event or other. I persuaded everyone to close their eyes and imagine it for themselves. I waffled on about ‘see in your minds eye the most amazing canvas - imagine the colours and the brushstrokes… the composition is completely in balance… feel the emotion of the subject… bla bla bla’.
dammit I could have been the next Damien Hurst with that…
Yes, I’d not done any work on the project.
nettie434 · 10/08/2022 04:14
My understanding was that the article was based on his personal experience 🙄 and didn't involve other people (hence my comment that he probably didn't need to go to an ethics committee). However, the question about whether the journal should have checked the legality of the material he used is I think very important.
Most journals are signatories to COPE
publicationethics.org/about/our-organisation
There seems to be so much about plagiarism and falsifying data but nothing about submissions that are based on indirect exploitation of others.
I wonder if this is the avenue through which we should complain?
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